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Data Scientist

Data Science

This is a perfect opportunity for ambitious individuals to join a team of curious minds and supporting peers with a passion and the skills for creating value for businesses using data.

About the role

Data Scientists are the driving force in delivering innovative and high-quality data science projects for our customers. With the Mango Solutions DNA in data science community engagement and a culture of learning and development, our end-to-end data capabilities are further strengthened as part of Ascent. Aligning Software with Data provides a powerful platform through which we engage some of the world’s leading brands in long-term strategic digital transformation.

Digital Services is a multi-disciplined team working alongside the Engineering Group (software, platform, and data engineering). Data Science as a mature practice is dedicated to the business application of a wide range of data science techniques and industry best practices, requiring the know-how of applying the most relevant and up-to-date methodology to domain-specific challenges.

What you’ll do

As a Data Scientist, you will work as part of a team that designs and implements data science solutions for businesses, using the suitable methodology and programming languages, confidently assuming responsibility for technical specifications. You will have the opportunity to:

Work as part of a multi-skilled delivery team on customer engagements
Quickly learn and apply skills to real business challenges
Contribute to a collective knowledge pool and gain appreciation
Work on a variety of businesses and problems, with data of all shapes and sizes
Be supported by the wider teams and a collective knowledge pool
Keep up to date on the latest technologies, techniques, and best practices
Work with the latest Azure offerings and get certified
Attend and present at high-profile conferences
Contribute to open-source projects
Implement data science solutions and support end-to-end pipelines
Challenge solution design and methodology with innovative ideas
Apply statistical rigor and computational efficiency in project delivery
Communicate progress and challenges proactively with team and project leads
Present work to technical and non-technical audiences
Promote Ascent/Mango publicly via blogging, conferencing and professional social media
Share knowledge internally
Keep up to date with relevant technologies and current trends

Skills and Experience

A successful candidate will demonstrate these traits:

Logical and methodical reasoning and communication with clarity and purpose

Fluent in either R or Python for data science; competence in both is desirable
Fluent in SQL (any flavor) for analysis; DBA experience is desirable
Experienced in applying some of the data science techniques to project work, including data visualization, package development, machine learning, NLP, Shiny / Dash, optimization, deep learning, reinforcement learning
Some knowledge of MLOps and implementation experience in MLOps is desirable
Daily use of git is highly desirable
Experience with cloud platforms, Azure is desirable
Software development experience is desirable

Data architecture knowledge is desirable
API design and deployment experience is desirable
Big data (e.g. Spark) experience is desirable
NoSQL DB experience is desirable
Azure Data Science Associate Certificate is desirable

The ideal candidate would have 2+ years of experience and the right to work in the UK and/or EU.

Working at Ascent

We help businesses connect data, software, and purpose to drive extraordinary outcomes. You could say we do digital transformation. But we’d rather say we help people solve problems, or do new things, or do existing things better.

We’re a scaling company, which means there are a lot of opportunities for you to have an impact on your team and the wider business by collaborating and supporting each other. With our amazing portfolio of customers, you’ll contribute to high-quality software and data projects across the business and work with colleagues who are capable of brilliant things.
We choose a hybrid working style, where you can spend time at the office, visiting customers when needed, or working at home in a balance that suits you and how you work best. Your base salary will be relevant to your experience and expertise, but you can expect 25 days' holiday in addition to public holidays, a contributory pension plan, and the other essential benefits.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are real priorities here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation during your application process, please let us know.

United Kingdom

Full Time

Senior DevOps Engineer - Health Care

DevOps

To be part of a talented software development team that works on mission-critical product developments that support the continued growth of GoodShape!

About the role

GoodShape is looking to appoint an experienced senior DevOps engineer, whose primary responsibility is for the build, deployment, maintenance, and automation of our customer's software development pipeline from source control through to production. As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, the candidate is responsible for developing and delivering scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms. The candidate will ensure solutions are built around our customer's business requirements and whilst subject to industry best practices.

Whilst all DevOps roles are expected to have a wide spectrum of skills, this role will have a particular focus on Azure (DevOps & Kubernetes), however, there may be requirements to support SQL databases, and software development and on-prem environments as well. This will include (but is not limited to):

Architecting and maintaining visualization and monitoring tools
Automating and optimizing DevOps processes, building out CI/CD pipelines
Overseeing Microservices migration into Azure
Support and troubleshooting issues within the CI/CD pipeline

The engineer will be responsible for maintaining the customer environment during the resolution of incidents and improving security, quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. You will have the opportunity to work in a forward-thinking and fast-paced technical environment, with a good split between technical escalations and project work.

The ideal candidate will also have a strong background in troubleshooting, maintaining, and creating solutions backed up by industry standard accreditations.

What you'll do

Write software, from build system automation to automated deployment
Working with an Agile methodology to deliver continuous deployment best practices
Imagine, architect, develop, deploy, and evolve CI/CD systems for our customer's cloud applications
Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and services
Write application deployment automation using industry-standard deployment and configuration tools
Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating customer tests as well as production environments
Provide systems support including responding to monitoring alerts
Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling
Work with our customers' developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning
Document automation processes
CI/CD infrastructure and process troubleshooting (disk space, network issues, etc)
CI/CD pipeline support (troubleshooting, support with setting up new projects)
Work closely with our colleagues and key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements
Perform any other business-related duties as assigned from time to time

Skills and Experience

Around 4 years of hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, including Kubernetes
Hands-on experience in continuous delivery and continuous integration of CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with migrating on-prem environments to Azure
Experience with Azure Repos, branching, code review, and code analysis tools
Proficient with Git, Git Flow, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
Strong hands-on expertise in diverse DevSecOps concepts/tools, especially on Azure DevOps, Pipelines, GitHub, and GitHub actions
Ability to assess the requirement, and environment and suggest the right tools/technologies
Hands-on experience on Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker and Azure Container Registry
Good knowledge of PowerShell scripting
Expertise in Debugging and providing solutions and workarounds
Hands-on experience with REST APIs and consuming from .Net Technologies and PowerShell
Knowledge of Azure Databricks and its architecture/framework
Knowledge of Azure Machine Learning Service and its architecture/framework
Knowledge of different monitoring and logging solutions available on the Cloud, preferably on Azure
Knowledge and understanding of Kemp load balancers (desirable)

Certifications Preferred

Azure DevOps (AZ - 400)
Azure Data Engineering (AZ-200 and AZ-201)
Azure Cloud Developer (AZ-203)

Working Conditions:

The role will be based at a preferred GoodShape location, but the successful candidate may be required to provide support and travel to other sites in the UK and Europe as required.
Remote working is also supported within the business.
Out-of-hours support on a rota basis may be required as part of this role.

Working at Ascent

This is a hybrid role, where you can spend time at the office or work from home. This is a company where your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional growth with training and certification, regular feedback, and review.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are real priorities here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

Bulgaria

Full Time